PONCE DE LEON I-II

The Nemours Children’s Center for Advanced Care at Home (ACaH) is a novel pediatric care model that redefines how care is delivered when bridging the hospital and the home. Through a tech-enabled, virtually managed model, ACaH supports early discharge, complex patient transitions, and specialty care follow-up across diverse clinical use cases. With a 24/7 command center, remote monitoring, and in-home services, ACaH improves quality, reduces costs, and enhances family satisfaction. The program has demonstrated the ability to reduce hospital stays, avoid ED visits, and achieve very high patient experience scores, setting a new standard for accessible, family-centered care. This session will explore the distinctive features and clinical significance of the Nemours Children’s Center for Advanced Care at Home (ACaH) model in the evolution of pediatric healthcare delivery. The presenter will discuss the ways in which ACaH is utilizing advanced technology, virtual oversight, measurable outcomes and in-home services to optimize patient outcomes, control healthcare expenditures, and elevate family satisfaction.

ROOM: JOURNEY A

It’s clear that Hospital at Home has a positive impact on patients. The challenge in scaling has not been the clinical model itself, but in proving financial sustainability and its strategic importance to the C-Suite. In this frank discussion, we’ll explore how the next evolution will require operationalizing workflows for a significantly larger patient population – an extremely difficult barrier to overcome. We want to deliver on Hospital at Home’s original promise: bringing quality care to more settings with a great patient experience, without the weight of hospital overhead. To achieve this, Hospital at Home must be a part of a broader ecosystem of care delivery in out-of-hospital settings – extending to advanced care at home or enhanced outpatient models. No one has all the answers, but we must go back to entrepreneurial basics to reimagine the right processes, define the data to action infrastructure, and integrate technology that enables scale – to deliver value with 10x the impact at 1/10th the cost.

ROOM: JOURNEY B

This interactive working group will explore how organizations are building and scaling hospital-at-home programs within non-waiver regulatory frameworks, using ambulatory care models to deliver high-acuity services safely and effectively. Participants will discuss operational logistics, reimbursement constraints, clinical governance, and innovative care delivery strategies that enable continuity of care outside the traditional inpatient waiver model.

Limited to 20 participants. Sign up at the registration desk.